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courses, but would move from it in a right line, a 

 tangent to their orbits, under the impulse to preserve 

 their velocity and direction, were they not deflected 

 constantly from their direction by a force acting at 

 right angles to their tangents, causing them to gravi- 

 tate towards the sun. So it is with all around us. 

 That which is, is. The cause that made it as it is 

 now, continues. The fiery glow that once held this 

 globe a molten mass, as our sister planet, Jupiter, 

 is yet ; died away millions of years ago ; unless 

 Solar changes come, the mineral world will remain 

 essentially unaltered ; until then Birth does not 

 enter it, nor will Death affect it. 



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